Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smell of garlic to New York's duck-bottomed little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. But he would have none of them. Had he not been deceived 17 months ago? Then he had gone confidently to a Manhattan haberdasher and bought a resplendent gabardine uniform, suitable for one silver star, had waited for orders to fly to North Africa, perhaps dreaming of marching into Rome at the head of U.S. columns. But a Congressional hubbub over "political generals" had stopped the appointment cold; Franklin Roosevelt sent to Italy two other New York Democrats, lameduck Charles Poletti, ex-lieutenant governor, and William...
Lieutenant Torbert H. Macdonald '40, USNR, is back home after 17 months of sea duty, with a record that has won him the Silver Star, the Atlantic and Pacific Theatre ribbons, and a Presidential Unit Citation, the only one given to a PT squadron...
Doing polkas at the "Arbiter Club" were Paul Kelley, John Baxter, Chris Kotthof and Gordon Koppert. Something on the order of the "Fife and Drum" and the "Silver Dollar," this place simply overflows with folklore and good beer...
Curious Course. Ten years ago Chucho Reyes set up a school in Guadalajara to train local children in painting, sculpture, bookbinding, glass blowing, dramatic writing, silver and tin work. Reyes himself knew nothing of these techniques, hired no teachers, ran the school in highly unacademic fashion. ("That is why they made such pretty things...
...Adler hit on the salt treatment because he was impressed by "the confusion of thought as to the cause and management of the common cold," and because he was convinced that most remedies in-use were either "useless or harmful." On his blacklist: astringent, oily or silver-salt nose drops; fruit juices; laxatives; fresh air; alkaline drinks; fluids. The only remedies besides salt in which he sees any merit are sulfadiazine sprays, vaccines (sometimes), sun lamp treatments and sun baths...